Rural Spotlight

FORHP Webinar: Rural Graduate Medical Education (GME) Opportunities – How Can Your RHC get involved? August 29

August 22, 2024

Rural Graduate Medical Education (GME) Opportunities – How Can Your RHC get involved? August 29

The National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC), in partnership with the Collaborative for Rural Graduate Medical Education Technical Assistance Centers, will host the free, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP)-supported webinar.

Research shows that providers that train in rural areas are significantly more likely to later practice in those communities. RHCs can play a critical role in that training through their ability to serve as rotational sites for many different providers.

This webinar will feature Pennsylvania Rural Health Clinic and Rural Residency Planning Development grantee, St. Luke’s Miners who will discuss their experience with GME and RHC site rotations.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 29, 1:00 -2:00 p.m. CT

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Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program – Apply by September 30

August 21, 2024

Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program – Apply by September 30

The Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP) is a federally-funded initiative that offers comprehensive technical assistance to rural hospitals to address financial and operational challenges and maintain essential health services for their community.

Applications are being accepted to receive two years of technical assistance through this FORHP-supported program for rural hospitals facing financial and operational challenges that affect their viability.

Technical assistance for this project is provided by the Center for Public Health Practice and Research at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University and will begin in November 2024.

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Click Here to Apply Now

FREE Live Webinar: Why Should the Boss Listen to You? Succeeding as a Compliance Officer, August 27

August 21, 2024

FREE Live Webinar: Why Should the Boss Listen to You? Succeeding as a Compliance Officer, August 27

This 60-minute presentation is sponsored by the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The webinar outlines the disciplines a compliance officer who counsels management should embrace. The goal is to have maximum impact as a trusted advisor.

Mr. Bloch will discuss how to navigate this difficult environment and master the crucial disciplines listed below to get and keep the confidence of organizational leaders.

  • Be trustworthy
  • Be verbal visionaries
  • Develop a management perspective
  • Think strategically
  • Be a window to tomorrow
  • Advise constructively

AIHC Credentialed Members Earn 1 CEU

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, August 27, 1:00 p.m.  – 2:00 p.m. ET

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Free Training Opportunity: Interprofessional Telehealth Training Program

August 21, 2024

Free Training Opportunity: Interprofessional Telehealth Training Program 

Everyone deserves quality healthcare through better disease detection, prevention, and treatment options. Telehealth can enhance the patient-clinician relationship, decrease healthcare costs, and improve access to timely intervention that may otherwise be unavailable.

The Missouri Telehealth Network has a new Interprofessional Telehealth Training Program (ITTP).

Learning modules guide professionals through educational trainings to equip them with a better understanding of telehealth capabilities. By enhancing access to high-quality healthcare through telehealth services, professionals can apply integrative, collaborative care models – improving communication, equity, and safety in healthcare systems across Missouri.

Highlights:

  • Asynchronous, self-paced
  • 5 learning modules
  • Approximately 2 – 2.5 hours to complete
  • Free for all
  • Accredited continuing education credits for some

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RHIhub This Week

August 20, 2024

RHIhub This Week

RHIhub This Week keeps you informed of the latest rural news, funding opportunities, publications and events.

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New MBQIP Resources Available

August 20, 2024

New MBQIP Resources Available

Check out this new resource, available through The RQITA Resource Center. This resource is a list of nationwide resources to address social drivers of health. Many of the organizations listed offer nationwide services or contain databases to identify local resources.

These resources may be used by hospital staff when a patient screens positive for a social driver of health and may also be accessed by patients directly.

RQITA National Assistance to Address Social Drivers of Health (Telligen.com)

FREE Anti-Stigma Training: Responding to Addiction

August 20, 2024

FREE Anti-Stigma Training: Responding to Addiction

A comprehensive anti-stigma training designed to increase knowledge about addiction and develop skills and strategies to help your community.

Participants will Learn:

  • The Science of Addiction
  • The Signs and Symptoms of Addiction
  • Evidence-based Treatment Options
  • Medications to Treat Addiction
  • Engagement Strategies

Cost: Free

When:

  • Session 1, august 29, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
  • Session 2, September 5, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

For more information, contact mo_actionnetwork@umkc.edu

Click Here to register for Session 1

Click Here to register for Session 2

Annual Time Burden on CAHs for New Medicare Data Collection – Comment by October 7

August 19, 2024

Annual Time Burden on CAHs for New Medicare Data Collection – Comment by October 7

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requests public input on the annual hourly burden for Critical Access Hospitals to collect and report data on obstetrical services, as proposed in the Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rule, and on acute respiratory illnesses, as finalized in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rule.

The new Conditions of Participation (CoPs) in these rules include multiple information collection requirements that are one-time burdens for developing new policies, protocols and ongoing reporting requirements, such as daily or biweekly reporting of respiratory illnesses as well as maternal deaths.

More information can be found HERE in the rules and in the information collection supporting documentation.

Comments must be made by October 7, 2024

See Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rule

See Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rule

Click Here to submit a formal comment

Rural Health Research: Changes in Rural Pharmacy Presence 2023

August 19, 2024

Rural Health Research: Changes in Rural Pharmacy Presence 2023

This data brief provides information on rural communities that have kept, lost, or gained a retail pharmacy between 2018 to  2023.

  • Between 2018 and 2023, the number of retail pharmacies in the U.S. declined by 3.9 percent.
    • During that same period, the number of retail pharmacies located in rural communities declined by 5.9 percent and,
    • The number of retail pharmacies located in urban communities declined by 3.4 percent
  • There was little variation in the characteristics of the population in places that kept, lost, or gained pharmacy service.
    • Where there was any variation, the results were often counterintuitive
    • Places that gained pharmacy service had a lower proportion of population that was non-White but a higher proportion that was Hispanic, and a higher proportion with no health insurance

Click Here to Read Brief